Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv prt] of [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 General Dynamics and McDonnell Douglas , builders of the super-expensive A-12 fighter for the United States Navy , want the Pentagon to bail them out of a possible $2.7 billion overrun on the development and production of A-12s .
2 She felt sticky and heavy , as if she was trying to pull herself out of the chlorinated pool with the water dragging at her bulk , breaking the surface tension with an effort .
3 The district council then had to spend almost £250,000 to bail it out of a financial crisis .
4 Mansell managed to negotiate himself out of the best car in Formula One , despite winning the world championship for the first time .
5 Her mind worried the problem of where would he find lodgings , how could she summon the strength to put him out of the only refuge he had ?
6 But Travis had been marvellously patient for months and months now — could n't she find a way to put him out of the private hell he was in ?
7 It has been decided to play the tape in an attempt to entice them out of the enclosed channel .
8 Even if it was n't quite enough finesse to keep him out of the loony bin .
9 Dominic Wetherby 's right hand was clutching a packet of cheese so tightly that it was impossible to prise it out of the dead grip .
10 The US government , which has no relations with the PLO and has sought consistently to keep it out of the Middle East peace process , said the request was still being discussed five hours later when news arrived that the 62-year-old chairman had been found .
11 So did Metastim capsule when I finally managed to fumble one out of the tiny pouch in my belt .
12 It took all three of them to lift him out of the reeking waterlogged shelter through an opening just big enough for one of them at a time .
13 But though this hope might be enough for some who were actually to lift themselves out of the working class , and perhaps also for a greater number who never got beyond dreaming of success as they read Samuel Smiles 's Self-Help ( 1859 ) or similar handbooks , it was perfectly evident that most workers would remain workers all their lives , and indeed that the economic system required them to do so .
14 CONNOISSEURS of the bizarre will recall the night Sheffield Wednesday players spent on wintry moorland , one of their ex-commando trainer 's ploys to get them out of the Third Division .
15 My aunt was the one who went to all the trouble of trying to get me out of the Soviet Union . ’
16 We worked very hard to get him out of the Soviet Union — well , you know all that , Mr Carpenter will have told you , and he will have told you what went wrong … ’
17 Parent 's of pupils at a top Gloucestershire school are being asked to bale it out of a 160,000 pound crisis .
18 In an interview with The Scotsman in July last year , only weeks after he was diagnosed as having an inoperable bronchial tumour , Mr McTear , who smoked between 40 and 60 cigarettes a day for 30 years , said he did not expect to get anything out of the legal action .
19 No daily Hansard is at hand , to get us out of a tight corner .
20 I would n't call last season debacle making the right decisions , my own personal opinion of him is that he was the right manager to get us out of the second divsion , but I feel that given the players and money avail able to him he maybe could have done better .
21 Few people would dare to refuse them out of a morbid fear of them and the curse a refusal may incur .
22 And that 's their right and so you think of something else we you 're not allowed to take them out of a favourite lesson , you 're not allowed to say you are going to miss your football or a P E P E teachers and the football teachers , quite rightly , say if you ca n't keep discipline in your class why why should we be penalized ?
23 ‘ A mortgagee is allowed to reimburse himself out of the mortgaged property for all costs , charges and expenses reasonably and properly incurred in enforcing or preserving his security .
24 and we , we would ask of that , but the next point and erm , is this my Lord erm at the moment erm the negotiations are erm proceeding in relation to the house , about which we have heard evidence , er , we could not properly buy it until it had been investigated by the court of protection and there was approval of that , and er it will be necessary for er consideration to be given as to how it should be purchased , in practical terms , firstly your Lordship has erm awarded a figure of seventy one thousand pounds , then there is the eighty thousand pounds on the existing house which takes one up to a hundred and fifty or thereabouts , and one sees that the special damages and interest thereon comes to something over fifty two thousand pounds to which these er parents will be entitled in the normal way , and if they were to apply , they might do and apply , that would go a long way to purchasing it and the court of protection , if it approved that might take the view that it would be fair to take something out of the notional aspect of damages for loss of earnings , because after all the plaintiff would have spent his earnings for housing and so on in the future , that , that is the sort of problems that now have to be tackled er what , what we would respect and suggest is er simply that there is liberty to apply erm .
25 He had added to the crumbs of education thrown to him by his father an ambition of his own focused on Samavia — not , to him , a real place so much as a symbol of satisfying large issues to take him out of a drab world .
26 The plots , counterplots , dead bodies and other nasty goings-on are laced with a soupçon of romantic interest to take it out of the boys- only category .
27 He looked ready to throw her out of the moving taxi .
28 With the ball often in need of a team of scuba-divers to dig it out of the muddy waters , the decision made sense .
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